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L. M. (Lewis Marshall) Hagood
1853–1936
A late-19th-century Methodist writer and minister, remembered for documenting the place of Black Americans in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His best-known work brings together church history, race, and faith in a way that still feels valuable to readers of American religious history.
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The Colored Man in the Methodist Episcopal Church
by L. M. (Lewis Marshall) Hagood
About the author
Lewis Marshall Hagood (1853–1936), usually published as L. M. Hagood, is known for The Colored Man in the Methodist Episcopal Church (1890). From library and archival records, he appears as a Methodist clergyman, and booksellers describing early editions identify him as both an African American minister and a physician.
His best-known book examines the long relationship between Black Americans and the Methodist Episcopal Church, tracing that history from slavery into the post–Civil War period. The work stands out as an early effort to record Black religious experience within a major American denomination, and it remains the main reason his name is still circulated in digital libraries and historical collections today.
Reliable biographical detail about Hagood is limited in the sources I could confirm, so this overview stays close to what is well supported: his full name, his life dates, his role as a Methodist writer and minister, and the significance of his 1890 book.